Long earnest letters, a prison chaplain's endorsement and a matured man changed for the better by his time in the clink.
All that separates this saga from the Shawshank Redemption is a daring prison break.
In April 2019, Cem Batak, then aged 26, gave his former schoolmate Cengiz Coskun a handgun with an extended magazine full of at least 16 lethal rounds.